FAIRY TALE REVIEW
Since 2016 (beginning with The Charcoal Issue, The Pink Issue, and The Coral Issue, most recently), I’ve served as an associate prose editor for Fairy Tale Review.
Fairy Tale Review will be open for general submissions for our seventeenth issue, The Gold Issue, from March 5, 2020 – June 30, 2020. The Gold Issue will be published in spring 2021. Please see below for information regarding the issue theme.
“I had a secret suspicion you were fond of Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Need I say that I adore them?” —Anne Sexton (December 23, 1970)
Theme: Anne Sexton published six volumes of poetry between 1960 and 1974, including the vanguard fairy tale collection Transformations (1971) in whose 50th Anniversary year The Gold Issue of Fairy Tale Review will appear. Anne Sexton’s magic takes many guises through fairy tales, feminism, and domestic sorcery. In celebration of Anne Sexton, The Gold Issue will feature poetry, fiction, and nonfiction about and inspired by Transformations.
For prose: Writers may submit up to 6,000 words of a single piece or up to three flash pieces totaling no more than 3,000 words and combined in a single document. We welcome short fiction, essays, lyric nonfiction, and scholarship, as well as excerpts of longer works. Scholarship will go through a standard peer review process. Prose submissions should be formatted with standard margins, double-spaced, 12-point serif font, and include page numbers.
For poetry: Writers may submit up to 5 poems, totaling no more than 10 pages.
For graphic novels, comics, and drama: Writers may submit up to 10 pages.
For original artwork: Artists may submit up to 5 high-resolution images.
For translations: Writers may submit translations of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry year-round. Submissions should follow the above guidelines corresponding to the genre of the original work. Submissions should include the translated work in its source language, along with any permissions necessary to publish the work in both languages, combined in a single document.